Word.ws English Dictionary

cospans

cospans is the plural of cospan.

Meaning of cospan

Noun

cospan (plural cospans)

  1. The dual of a span.
    • This extra structure arises from a lax symmetric monoidal functor F#92;colon#92;mathbf#123;C#125;#92;to#92;mathbf#123;D#125;; we use this functor to "decorate" each cospan with apex N#92;in#92;mathbf#123;C#125; with an element of F(N).2016, Kenny Courser, “A bicategory of decorated cospans”, in arXiv

Questions about cospans

What is cospans the plural of?
Cospans is the plural of cospan.

Words near cospans in the dictionary

  1. cosovereign
  2. cosovereigns
  3. cosovereignty
  4. cosp
  5. cospan
  6. cospans
  7. cospatial
  8. cospatially
  9. cospecialize
  10. cospecialized
  11. cospecializes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cospans (page history and authors); cospan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cospans.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cospans. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.